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Is there a way to not see duplicate of the same topic across different communities? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Hi everyone!

I’m really enjoying the Fediverse through Lemmy and Peertube.

Two creators I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse are Dash and Gardiner Bryant (both work on The Bryant Review) as their content is really enjoyable.

Sadly they are the target of my post as they shares their content on many different communities that I follow.

Today I had 5 times the same topic on RetroDeck (great project too) on my feed on Lemmy (Voyager).

It is the same on PieFed (Interstellar).

This is really annoying and I haven’t found a way to not show these duplicates. Do you know about one or is it worked on?

Also when crossposting, it would be great if everything appeared under on post. Is it feasible?

Sorry if it’s easy and I just missed it. In a way I hope it is because it would mean that the Fediverse is festure rich😇

Edit: Added Dash as she was in fact the one who published the article. Also it appears that the issue is only on mobile apps since both the browser of Lemmy and PieFed don't have it.

Edit 2: Using the Progressive Web App of PieFed seems to have solved the issue for me

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[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Oh my Gosh. Okay, this is me!

One creator I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse is Gardiner Bryant as his content is really enjoyable.

First off, thank you so much! Really appreciate you enjoying the articles we put out :) One think I might emphasize here though is that so far as the site goes, Gardiner and I are partners! This is one of my articles though (so I'm to blame for this appearing so often in your feed). In fact I'm 99.99% sure Gardiner doesn't actually share his articles on Lemmy at all.

Sadly he ´s the target of my post as he shares his content on many different communities that I follow.

(And I'm 'she'!)

I'm sorry it appears like this. It used to annoy me back when I was regularly on Reddit, when a post was cross-posted to a different community I'd have to follow that link, read their description of the post, then follow the link then go back a few steps to start/join the discussion in that community. Since joining Lemmy and sharing here (it has been a long time!) I just went against that grain and posted in the communities it was relevant to, to give each community a space to chat about it.

I had no idea your app was showing it this way, or that how I was doing this was annoying anyone. I'll just go back to the age old cross-post method instead, going forward. Interesting that your app shows it this way, the one I use seems to do that for me.

Sorry to annoy you! It won't happen going forward :)

[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Note that the post doesn't necessarily go against your (re)posting style, but rather how it is represented in the apps. As others have noted, there are options that combine reposts, with Voyager (which is shown in OP's screenshot) having an open issue ticket. Though you using the native repost function probably helps.

Thank you for your work, btw ❤️

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's a few cross folk in here, whose comments (I can't pretend don't hurt a bit!) do disagree. I'll just have to have a think how I share on here going forward. The last thing I want to do is annoy anyone, but it takes a user all of 2 seconds to click on my profile here and see I'm deeply invested in the fediverse and have been on Lemmy for years now.

I appreciate your comment, thank you for saying so!

[–] driftwood@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well just know that the professionalism with which you are handling this situation has shown your good character to people like me, who have not heard of your work before. It made me want to go check out your site and articles now.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

https://gardinerbryant.com/author/dash/

In that case, have at it!

And thank you so much, what a kind comment to find :)

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 11 points 6 days ago

Hello,

Thank you for posting those aricles. I wouldn't worry too much about crossposting, as you can see from the comments, there are apps and other software that deals with this better, so you shouldn't refrain too much.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Well I didn’t know you were Dash. I feel honored that you answered to my post.

I enjoy reading your articles on the Bryant Review and I’m sorry if I thought that Gardiner wrote the article about RetroDeck when in fact it was you.

Thanks for taking note of the fact that the method you were using was creating duplicates and I hope crossposting solves the issue (although half of the duplicates shown on my feed were from Lazorne and not from you). If not, it ain’t such a big deal, just a small annoyance.

At least everyone now knows that the Bryant Review and RetroDeck are great and deserve to be known for it!

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh no problems!

I just shared an article (the full interview of my questions and answers with the DroidDeck team, which I turned into that feature article on our site!) which is on my NeoCities site, by cross-posting to three communities here. From what I see though it is the exact same issue again, just with a different method.

I think this is in fact a Fediverse issue, and not how I've been sharing articles to communities here. I'm sorry!

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I only saw it on the games@lemmy.world community. On what other community did you post it too?

If people who subscribed to all of these comminities are seeing duplicates, I guess it’s really a Fediverse issue as I totally understand why you wanna post on many communities to reach more people.

Let’s hope a developper finds a way to solve it one day.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago

Reposting, or rather, cross-posting, is fine and it's the correct way to do things in the Fediverse. A post can be relevant to different communities because each one has their own cultural take on a given subject.

What we need is clients that present a better interface to view (and resume) that relationship, but that's not on you, let alone on the people who create content for the Fediverse. We want there to be more of it (and more varied), not less.

[–] danielfm123@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What is retro deck doing?

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Both Mbin and Piefed solved this.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Yes according to some people, but what apps do you use to not have the issue?

Because I’m mostly on the Fediverse on my mobile phone (iOS)..

Such a feature could make me switch from Lemmy/Voyager, although I really love Voyager UI and dislike Interstellar for now.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

If you arent against using ai and sideloading, you can prob fork voyager and have it support this piefed feature within an hour or so, I might try it later, imo this is the kind of usecase ai is great for, doesn't harm anyone's business, it's all free anyways

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah, that's where I can't help I guess, as someone who doesn't use mobile apps.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah I checked and as you can see with these Lemmy and PieFed printscreens, it's really the mobile apps which are not taking care of the issue.

PieFed Lemmy

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Karma farmers gonna farm.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Hello there, original writer of the article, and the posts here.

I've been contributing to the fediverse for years now. Not only am I on Lemmy every single day, I'm on Mastodon. Gardiner (my partner in the site, he and run it together!) is well known for his support of the fediverse. Every video he makes goes to subscribeto.me

I explained elsewhere in this post why I share my posts as I do, but maybe just do a quick scroll through my profile here. You'll see years of me sharing to this space.

Karma farmers gonna farm.

What exactly do you think I will do with this karma?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thanks for your great work! Clearly you are an outlier among social media users, most of whom are overwhelmingly (if not exclusively) consumers. My karma-farmer comment was a generalization, not directed at you. I apologize if it gave offense.

As for what anybody hopes to do with social media karma, I really don't know. Someone once told me well developed reddit accounts can actually be bought and sold, but that has to be a very niche activity. Over the years I've abandoned at least a dozen reddit accounts with tens of thousands of points, because I came up with a username I liked more. My best guess is that the main appeal of karma is validation for people who don't have enough positive interaction IRL, but I'm not trained in psychology.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not alone in this wish, though I'm sure that doesn't surprise you. I sort of accepted it as just part of how a federated reddit-style forum would work, but if there's a way to address it, that would be very cool.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Piefed addreses that, as you can see in the other comments.

http://piefed.blahaj.zone/ is run by the same team as your current instance.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think they'd like posts merged not just comments.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Piefed merges posts (and has an indicator with the number of crossposts , on the same level as the comments counter see https://piefed.zip/c/privacy@programming.dev ) in the feed view.

[–] ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I might have to switch to Piefed from mbin. Both are far better than Lemmy imo, but piefed is starting to leave mbin in the dust too. I keep hearing of ways piefed just does things better.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 6 days ago

It's worth a try!

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Here's how piefed handles it using the browser.

[–] banana_pie@piefed.zip 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Piefed really is lemmy done right in many aspects

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago

Im starting to discover this too… Just too stubborn to give in, and I don't want the instance I am currently using to die.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

Shame it's handled by yet another tiny dicktator.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Piefed web interface does stack comments if cross posted, so I'm guessing the poster isn't bothering to cross post if it isn't showing that way in Intersellar.

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